fritillaries – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Variegated Fritillary Butterfly At Sequoyah NWR

By Mia McPherson|2023-07-30T04:45:44-05:00July 30th, 2023|Categories: Oklahoma, Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge, Variegated Fritillary Butterflies|Tags: adult, bottomland hardwood forests, bottomlands, butterflies, butterfly, Common Hedge Parsley, Euptoieta claudia, fritillaries, fritillary, fritillary butterfly, parsley, perched, spring, Steve Creek, Torilis arvensis, Variegated Fritillary, white wildflowers|

Today I am sharing three Variegated Fritillary butterfly photos that I took at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge when I visited my friend, Steve Creek, in June.

West Desert Butterfly Photos

By Mia McPherson|2022-09-09T04:59:28-05:00September 9th, 2022|Categories: Camillus Crescent Butterflies, Mormon Fritillary Butterflies, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: Argynnis mormonia, butterflies, butterfly, Camillus Crescent, Camillus Crescent Butterfly, canyon, cresent, cresents, desert, fritillaries, fritillary, head on, Mormon Fritillary, Phyciodes pulchella camillus, rabbitbrush, sky island mountains, summer, wildflowers, yellow wildflowers|

Earlier this week I did some West Desert wandering and while I was there I took some butterfly photos that clumps of blooming rabbitbrush had attracted.

Female Great Spangled Fritillary Butterfly

By Mia McPherson|2021-07-22T05:10:41-05:00July 22nd, 2021|Categories: Great Spangled Fritillary Butterflies, Morgan County, Utah, Wasatch Mountains|Tags: adult, Argynnis cybele, Black twinberry honeysuckle, butterflies, butterfly, canyon, Carduus nutans, female, forest, fritillaries, fritillary, Great Spangled Fritillary, honeysuckle, honeysuckles, Lonicera involucrata, mountains, Musk Thistle, nectaring, nonnative, pink wildflowers, summer, thistle, thistles, wildflowers|

This is a female Great Spangled Fritillary, a butterfly species that can be abundant in the Wasatch Mountains at this time of the year.